Vincenzo Marinelli, San Martino d'Agri, 1820- Naples, 1892
An Arab wedding procession
Oil on canvas
82X103
Private collection
In this work there is an atmosphere of fascinating exoticism, given by the depiction of distant lands lived with full romantic sensitivity by the artist. Marinelli later travelled first to Greece, where he worked for King Otto of Bavaria. He then went to Egypt, where he carried out works for the Viceroy Said Pasha. He also accompanying him on a journey he made in Sudan.
Vincenzo Marinelli (5 June 1820 – 18 January 1892) was an Italian painter, known best for his Orientalist canvases based on his travels in Greece, Crete, Egypt, and Sudan.
Marinelli was born in San Martino d'Agri near Potenza. His father was a surgeon and a dedicated Jacobin. At the age of 17, he moved to Naples to complete his literary and scientific studies. By the age of 22, he dedicated himself to painting, and studied under Costanzo Angelini at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples. Obtaining a scholarship from the Province of Basilicata, from 1842 to 1848, he studied in Rome at the Academy under Tommaso Minardi.
Vincenzo Marinelli (1819–1892)
Cesare Mormile (L'insurrezione napoletana del 1547)
Cesare Mormile (The 1547 Neapolitan Insurrection)
Oil on panel
236 × 176 cm (92.9 × 69.2 in)
Castel Nuovo
Cesare Mormile; descending from an ancient family of the Neapolitan aristocracy ascribed to the Seat of Portanova, whose members had seen their political and economic fortunes grow for having served as men of arms for the Angevin and later Aragonese sovereigns.
During the uprisings of 1547, when the opposition that had been mounting in Naples for some time against the policy of Spain and of the viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, promoter of royal absolutism and a policy of containing the prerogatives of baronage, took on the tones of the revolt , Mormile, openly hostile to the Toledan anti-real estate policy, had a prominent role from the very first hour. The events began in April, when news began to spread that the government was in the process of radically reforming the Inquisition... More on Cesare Mormile
Marinelli Vincenzo (S. Martino D'Agri, PZ 1819 - Naples 1892)
Woman painting
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time
Marinelli Vincenzo (S. Martino D'Agri, PZ 1819 - Naples 1892)
Head of a gypsy
Oil on canvas
52.5x40 cm
Private collection
Vincenzo Marinelli (1819–1892)
Young woman in Albanian costume
Oil on paper on board
34 x 26.3 cm
Private collection
Marinelli Vincenzo (S. Martino D'Agri, PZ 1819 - Naples 1892)
Arab woman
Oil on panel
cm 31.7x18
Private collection
Returning to Naples after the restoration, he traveled through Greece working for Otto, King of Greece. He visited the Greek isles, and painted for the Cathedral of Rethymno in Crete. He then travelled to Alexandria in Egypt which had become home to many Italian Exilés. It was here that he befriended the Egyptologist Giuseppe Vassali, Inspector of Archaeological Excavations and Vice-Director of the Cairo Museum and was introduced to the great Ottoman Khedive, Sa’id Pasha, who had acceded to the throne that same year.
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italian, 1820–1892)
A royal procession in North Africa
Oil on Board
45.5 x 108 cm. (17.9 x 42.5 in.)
Private collection
Vincenzo Marinelli (1819–1892)
Nomadic Bedouin family traveling
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time
Vincenzo Marinelli (1819–1892)
Le piramidi
I have no further description, at this time
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italy 1819-1892)
Treats of slaves on the shores of the Red Sea, c. 1854
Oil on canvas
95 x 200 cm.
Private collection
"Made in the atelier by reworking a series of sketches made in Egypt, the painting portrays a scene that Marinelli probably witnessed during the trip to Sudan and Nubia following the Kedivè Said Pascià. The documentary intent of the canvas does not detract from the beauty of the landscape , to the warm colors of the desert, which extends into the background and which the horizontal cut of the composition seems to favor. A sketch of the "Nomad Tent" portrayed on the left of the picture, is kept in a private Neapolitan collection. The slave trade was a subject recurrent in the pictorial production of Jean Lèon Gèrome. " (MCMinopoli, in "The Italian Orientalists / One Hundred Years of Exoticism 1830-1940", entry nos. 16-18). More on this painting
Marinelli completed works for the Ottoman Khedive, Muhammad Sa'id Pasha, accompanying him on a nine-month trip to Sudan. Back in Naples in 1859, ten years later he was invited to the inauguration of the Suez Canal, he returned to Egypt and traveled up to the first cataract of the Nile.
Marinelli Vincenzo (S. Martino D'Agri, PZ 1819 - Naples 1892)
Christ baptizing children
Oil on panel
12.5x21 cm
Private collection
After the unification of Italy in 1860, Marinelli moved to Naples where he started a long series of historical paintings with Orientalist themes, namely Il ballo dell’ape nell’harem (acquired by the Prince Umberto di Savoia), Ricordo dell’Alto Egitto (View of High Egypt), Tratta delle schiave sul Mar Rosso (The Slave Route on the Red Sea) and Famiglia di beduini nomadi in viaggio (Travelling Family of Bedouins).
Vincenzo Marinelli
The Dance of the Bee, c. 1862
Oil on canvas
PROVINCIAL ART GALLERY, Potenza
Marinellifled to Egypt in 1848, where he worked for the Khedivé Said Pasha. Returning to Naples in 1862, Marinelli recomposed inventive images from his notebooks and memories of his travels in the East. The work depicts the dancers of the sultan’s harem who, pretending to have been bitten by a bee, writhe voluptuously until their clothes slip completely off their bodies. More on this painting
Again returning to Italy, he won a contest in 1875 to become Professor of design and figure at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts a Naples, and in 1881, upon the death of Domenico Morelli, he was named professor of painting of Royal Institute. He taught from 1865 to 1887 at the Royal Educandato Femminile Regina Maria Pia. He died in Naples on 18 January 1892.
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italian, 1819-1892)
The Transportation of the Mahmal to Mecca, c. 1854 and 1869
Pencil, pen and brown ink, on silk laid down on paper
34 ½ x 80 in. (87.1 x 203.2 cm.)
Private collection
A mahmal is a ceremonial passenger-less litter that was carried on a camel among caravans of pilgrims on the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca which is a sacred duty in Islam. It symbolised the political power of the sultans who sent it, demonstrating their custody of Islam's holy sites. Each mahmal had an intricately embroidered textile cover, or kiswah. The tradition dates back at least to the 13th century and ended in the mid-20th. More on the mahmal
The present drawing was a preparatory to the artist’s painting, La Grande carovana painted shortly after the artist returned from this trip.
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italian, 1819-1892)
The procession in the desert
Oil on canvas
Private collection
Vincenzo Marinelli,
Three men
Oil on canvas
33.5x27.5 cm
Private collection
Among his works are: Parnassus and Great Poets of Antiquity in 17 life size canvases for the Royal Palace in Athens; two large altarpieces: Assumption of the Virgin and Baptism of Christ in the Jordan for the Cathedral of San Antonio of Padua in Rethymno; a canvas of recollecting his trip to Sudan, Khedive Said Pasha ordering the caravan to form, Ballo dell' ape nell Harem (Dance of the Bee in the Harem), and le Baiadere exhibited in 1862 at the first International Exposition of London; Cleopatra and her handmaidens receive Antonio; Cesare Mormile addresses the people rebelling against the decrees of the Inquisition; Un episodio del Cantico dei cantici; Il ritorno del tappeto dalla Mecca; and The Kamsin once in the Gladstone House at Liverpool; Henry IV at Canossa; Un corteo nuziale arabo and Una fiera di schiavi nel deserto.
Vincenzo Marinelli (1819-1892)
The Cleopatra's toilet
Oil on canvas
Capodimonte Museum
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italian, 1819-1892)
Woman Lying
Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time
His Ballo dell'ape garnered notoriety in prior centuries for its exotic and sensuous tone; modern attention is likely more to be disturbed by the depiction of an African courtesan, likely a slave, dancing half-naked for her Arab ruler.
Vincenzo Marinelli (Italian, 1820–1892)
Notables à Màhari, se rendant à un mariage , c. 1878
Oil on Canvas
54.5 x 106 cm. (21.5 x 41.7 in.)
Private collection
For his Ferrante Carafa riding through the streets of Naples with Masaniello, the popular hero, seated on the horse behind him (1870, Exhibition at Parma), awarded a gold medal at the Exhibition of Parma and a thousand lire by the Ministry of Public Education. For this latter work, he was awarded the cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy and the painting was moved to the Pinacoteca of the city of Turin. More on Vincenzo Marinelli
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